[@Cynder]

Oh my god, it's funny you mention that because I'm actually getting a parrotlet once I start working again. My dream bird is probably a Greater Vasa or a Caique but it'd be super unfair for the feathered friend because I'll be in university in either a year or two years (hard to know in alternative schools) and they're a lot more needy than parrotlets, plus I wouldn't be able to afford it. That being said I still love parrotlets tons. My true dream bird is a curl crested aracari but as it happens I do not have the money for those guys, nevermind these.

I've taken care of parrotlets but only ever had one who I named Jirachi (I was younger than Salamander at the time, no comments), who was this poor little elderly guy who was a pity buy more than anything. Some guy on Kijiji put him up advertising him as a young and healthy bird when in reality he was kept in a cage far too small for a parrotlet (they need a lot of space for such a small bird) and kept there all its life after a traumatic incident in which it got stuck inbetween the doors to a nesting box that wasn't his and the mother cockatiel chewed most of his foot off. He was so scared of everything, the poor guy; human and bird alike. It took him over half a year to be okay with me and eventually made friends with our Budgie Emi who never got along with other birds (She was far more parrotlet in spirit than Jirachi and I swear she was as smart as a Gray - I know you're not supposed to have favourites but Emi was a very special little girl). So my experience with them isn't typical but I miss the little guy a lot. He was a one person bird as well (only me) but it almost felt things were more special that way.